Sound Remedy

Listen While You Work 1.0 started with me saying I was trying to keep my head above water at my job. I came out yesterday in a pretty personal post saying that I wasn’t going to live that way anymore. That said, I still spend many hours at work, and it’s always important to have good music to listen to at work. And so comes Episode 2 of Listen While You Work. For the most part, it’s a little more upbeat this time; you gotta keep you head up while ya work, right? This version features music from the following artists:

I chose to take the same method as last week and ask Facebook fans for mashup submissions, so make sure you’re a fan of the Sunset Facebook page and keep an eye out on Monday for the posts that call for submissions. It’s worked pretty well so far, so I might keep doing that. Shout out to all my homies over there (Anthony, Garrett, Josh, Elisha, and Mike) who submitted songs. We got some fire right hurr. Also, some of these are remixes rather than mashups, but they were too good to ignore, so I put them in here. Hit the jump to hear all of the songs.

1. Midnight Swimming (M83 x Kendrick Lamar) – Patombomb

2. One Day I’ll Be Rich Enough To Buy You All (Rihanna x Rise Against) – Dr. Brixx

What up ya’ll? Sorry I was absent last week; good thing the homie Arjun had my back. For those wondering, I was holding it down in La-La Land for New Years as well as the Rose Bowl to support my Badgers. Unfortunately, we came up short against a great Oregon team, but if you ever get a chance to catch The Granddaddy of Them All in gorgeous Pasadena, don’t hesitate. Fantastic weather. Anyway, how was everybody else’s New Year’s Eve? Anybody do any cray shit? Do tell. If you’re not still hungover from last weekend, here are a few tracks for you to get down to on today’s edition of FAF.

I got a couple text messages today from my sister reminding me that I better not forget to post a Friday at Five today! They came in the form of eccentric emoticons. The first one I interpreted as a high five. She sent another that had headphones, a clock pointing to 5, and a red exclamation mark. I didn’t really know this was all possible on the iPhone, but hey…there’s an app for that. No surprise, I guess. So here you go, Em…here’s your Friday at Five!

4. “Moonlight Sonata” (Sound Remedy Remix) – Beethoven

Wow. I was informed about this one in the ChatBox from Patrick, and I’m blown away. I mean, this is a song I was playing on the piano as a child, and now it’s got some heavy bass and some wobbles over it, and I’m…well…wow, I feel sort of like I’m on drugs. Was that a dog bark right there? Or a scratch? Losing my mind over this one. (via TMN)

5.” Raise Your Weapon” (Madeon Remix) – DeadMau5

Madeon is one of those names that you need to know if you’re up on your music game. He is absolutely absurd. And guess how old he is? 16. Yep. Truth. He makes absolutely incredible remixes. Can’t wait until he starts making more of his own music. (Sorry for the radio rip on this one.)

My buddy was playing this at a party last night and everyone was really feeling it–I had never heard it but asked him what it was and immediately downloaded it. Been listening to it all day. Awesome, easy-going club/trance feel to this one that’s hard not to groove with. Takes the acapella from Cudi’s “Symphonies” and really turns it into something completely new. Dope. The drop into the beat is really well timed.